Sausage cooker



April 15, 1941. J. w. BIEREK SAUSAGE COOKER Filed Oct. 10; 1939 INVENTORW W ORNEY Patented Apr. 15, 1941 UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE SAUSAGECOOKER Joseph William Bierek, Seattle, "Wash, assignor to IndustrialPatents Corporation, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of DelawareApplication October 10, 1939, Serial K057298321 7 Claims.

Designations of position such as the terms front and rear as used inthis specification will be understood to denote portions of therespective parts as they appear in the completed device.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification,similar reference characters in the several figures designate similarparts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of the presentinvention with the cover in the open position and showing frankfurtersin place for cooking.

Figure 2 is a plan view of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an end view of one embodiment of the present inventionpartially in section.

Figure 5 is a detailed drawing of the pivot means for raising one sideof the sausage rack.

The present device comprises a watertight vessel I consisting of endwalls 2 and 3, front side wall 4, rear side wall 5, and bottom 6 inwhich is located drain 49. The vessel may be supported by any suitablemeans, as by legs such as I, 8, 9, and). Steam coils II and I2 rest uponsupports I3 and I4 affixed to the bottom 6. Aflixed to the front andrear side walls are brackets I5 and I6, which may be made of angle ironattached to the walls by any suitable means, located to support thesausage rack and bars beneath the water level when the vessel is filledfor cooking. Attached to the rear side wall 4 of the vessel as by meansof hinges I'I, I8, and I9, is a screen cover comprising, in theembodiment shown, frame 2|, cross arms 22, 23, and 24 and screen 25. Inthe preferred embodiment of the invention, the screen cover fits withinthe vessel I, which result is secured by set-off 26 in the cross armsII, I8, and I9. The cover 20 may be locked in a closed position by anysuitable means as by pin 21, which may be chained to the front wall 4 ofthe vessel by chain 28, adapted to be placed within latch 29 on the topof the cover 20 and eye 30 on the top of the front wall 4 of the vesselI. Afiixed to the front edge of the cover 20 by a suitable eye 3| iscord 32 attached to counterweight, and operable over pulley 34 affixedto risers 35 and 36 securely attached to the rear wall 5 of the cooker'I, as bybolts 31. I

Operable within the cooking vessel I is raisable rack 38 comprisingframe 39 and removable sausage sticks 40, over which may be placed thesausage or other material to be cooked. The rear side edge of the rackframe 39 is linked to cover 20 by means of ashort length of chain 4Iaffixed to the cover by any suitable means such as staple 42 a shortdistance from the hinge I8. The front edge of the rack frame 39 can beraised or lowered by means of the lever 43, movably affixed to end wall2 of vessel I by any suitable means, such as by stud 44 welded to theinside of the end wall 2 and nut 45 thereon. Lever 43 is connected tothe front edge of rack frame 39 by means of link 46 attached to thelever arm 43 by means of pin 41 and to the rack by means of pin 48.

In the operation of the present invention, material to be cooked, suchas frankfurters, is placed upon removable sausage sticks in any suitablearrangement when the rack is in the raised position. Then the front sideof the rack is lowered into the water by the movement of lever arm 43 tothe lowered position and the rear side of the rack lowered by merelyclosing the cover 20 and locking in the closed position.

The product can be cooked any desired period of time and after cookingis completed, the cover 20 is raised, thereby raising the rear side ofthe cooking rack 38 out of the water. The front side of the cooking rackcan then be raised by movement of the lever arm 43 to the raisedposition.

It will readily be seen that the advantages of such an arrangement aremany. It simplifies the loading of the cooking vessel, both in the timetaken to load the cooker and in the labor necessary therefor. The barson which the product is placed are raised out of the water for theloading and unloading operations, thereby securing ease in handling andsafety from scalds or burns which otherwise might occur. If theremovable sausage sticks 40 are removable from rack frame 39, the barscan be loaded away from the cooker, and easily, quickly and safelyplaced on the rack frame, while the frame is in the raised position.

The present invention also has the advantage of assuring a uniformcooking as sausage is not in contact with other products during thecooking process.

I claim:

1. A cooker comprising a vessel having a raisable cover, a rack frame,removable bars to fit across said rack frame, means for raising andlowering a portion of said rack frame in unison with said cover, andindependent means for raising and lowering the other portion of saidrack frame.

2. A cooker comprising a. vessel, a hinged screen cover operable to foldwithin the top of said vessel, a rack linked to and below said coveradjacent to the hinged side of said cover, and lever means for raisingand lowering the opposite side of said rack.

3. A sausage cooker comprising a vessel, a hinged cover, a raisable racklinked to said cover, said cover when folded in an open position servingto raise one edge of said rack, and a lever means serving to raise orlower the opposite edge of said rack,

4. A cooker comprising a vessel, a hinged cover, a raisable rack, meansfor sustaining said rack in alowered position and means for raising saidrack adjacent to the top of the Vessel, said means comprising a linkageto the hinged cover a short distance away from the hinge, and a leverserving to raise or lower the opposite side edge of said rack.

5. A cooker comprising a vessel, a hinged cover operable to fold withinthe top of said vessel, I. rack linked at one of the sides of saidvessel to and below said cover, and a lever means, said cover whenfolded in an open position serving to raise said rack at one of its sideedges relative to said vessel, and said lever means serving to raise orlower the opposite side edge of said rack relative to said vessel.

6. A cooker comprising a vessel, a hinged cover and a raisable rack,means for raising one side of said rack by the raising of said cover,and an independent means for raising the opposite side of said rack.

7. A cooker comprising a vessel, a hinged screen cover and a raisablerack, the side of said rack adjacent to the hinges at the side of saidcover being linked to said cover whereby that side of said rack israised and lowered by the opening and closing of said cover, andindependent lever means linked to the opposite side of said rack wherebysuch side may be raised and lowered independently of the first side ofsaid rack.

JOSEPH WILLIAM BIEREK.

